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Purdue Profiles: Maureen Panares

Maureen Panares has dedicated her career to helping maintain and improve university students' health despite their often harried, hectic lives. As director of the student health center at Purdue Calumet, Panares is the main nurse practitioner for the facility. It sees between 40 and 60 student patients each week. Read more...

Featured News for Employees

Recorded webinar provides long term care insurance overview

Those interested in learning more about Purdue's new long term care (LTC) insurance benefit can now access a recorded webinar anytime it fits their schedules. The webinar is presented by Lea Fosz from Genworth Life Insurance Co. and runs about 40 minutes. Read more...

Plot rental available at Purdue Village Gardens

Purdue faculty and staff have the opportunity to rent garden plots in the Purdue Village Gardens. Read more...

Research News & Special Reports

Airline performance improves to best ever, according to Airline Quality Rating

Airline passengers are experiencing better overall performance for the fourth consecutive year, according to the 22nd annual national Airline Quality Rating. Read more...

General News

Feds praise Purdue's center to guide the improved use of electronic health records systems

The Purdue Regional Extension Center (PurdueREC) successfully reached the halfway mark in its work under a $12 million federal grant initiative designed to guide physicians throughout Indiana in using their electronic health records systems in meaningful ways. Read more...

Purdue updates policy, offers online advice on sexual violence

Purdue has rolled out a new website offering advice for individuals who believe they have been sexually assaulted and outlining the University's role and responsibilities in helping them. Read more...

Blackboard Learn tools spark greater interaction among online students

Undergraduate students in Basic Public Health Studies, an online course in the Blackboard Learn pilot this semester, are benefiting from tools their peers in sections of the course using Blackboard Vista don't have. Read more...

People

Alder to lead Purdue engagement efforts in Indy

Purdue's Office of Engagement has appointed Barbara J. Alder, the location director of Purdue Technology at Anderson and Richmond, as the University's director of engagement in central Indiana. Read more...

Purdue Sports

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Graduate Student
Appreciation Week

Purdue's graduate students are the scholars, researchers and mentors of the future. They are exuberant. Resilient. Driven. Arriving from different countries and all walks of life. Acting on their passions to make a difference in the world -- and a better place for us all.

Today's profile:
Andy Robinson

Events

• This week's events
• Events for the next four weeks

• Purdue scientists to discuss their work in diabetes, cancer, sustainability at conference

• Pulitzer Prize-winning writer to speak at 2012 Literary Awards

• Purdue, Ivy Tech, Oakland students to showcase public policy issues

Sites of interest

• Momentum Makers
• Difference Makers
• 5 Students Who ...